40Accordingly, it must be held, on the same grounds as those mentioned at paragraph 33 above, that, where the competent authority of a Member State finds that a plant protection product imported from an EEA State in which it is already covered by marketing authorisation granted in accordance with the Directive, if not identical in all respects to a product already authorised within the Member State of importation, at least— shares a common origin with that product in that it has been manufactured by the same company or by an associated undertaking or under licence according to the same formulation,— was manufactured using the same active ingredient, and— also has the same effect with due regard to differences which may exist in conditions relating to agriculture, plant health and the environment, in particular climatic conditions, relevant to the use of the product,that product must be able to benefit from the marketing authorisation already granted in the Member State of importation, unless that is precluded by considerations concerning the protection of human and animal health and of the environment.
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